Exam 6: Memory-Part A

Short-term storage is to long-term storage as:

Recovering alcoholics tend to report a greater urge to drink when they visit places where they used to drink.This is partly the result of:

A student raises her hand to answer a question.The professor calls on her but embarrassingly cannot remember her name,despite the fact that he is absolutely knows it.The professor is experiencing:

Short-term memory can hold approximately _____ meaningful items.

McKayla is asked to think of a word that rhymes with "prime." Danielle is asked to think about the mathematical meaning of prime numbers.The next day,both women are asked,"Hey,what was the word that you heard yesterday that rhymes with 'time'?" _____ will be more likely to recall "prime" because _____.

Sperling flashed a matrix of 12 letters for 1/20th of a second to participants.When asked to recall the letters immediately after,Sperling found that MOST participants recalled:

A participant is shown 100 pictures.Sometime later,she is shown pictures in an fMRI scanner and asked if they were part of the original set or not.Which area of the brain would be LEAST active during this task?

Damage to the hippocampus is LEAST likely to cause a 30-year-old male to forget:

Before Jane starts studying,she takes a few deep breaths to calm herself.She always goes to the same part of the library and sits at the same table.Before her exam,she takes a few deep breaths to bring herself back to the same frame of mind that she was in during her study session.Jane is applying:

_____ memory refers to the gradual acquisition of skills as the result of practice,or "knowing how" to do things.

Professor Lopez always parks his car in the same garage.One morning,however,the garage was full and the professor had to park his car elsewhere.When he parked his car,he took special note of its new location.Nevertheless,that afternoon Professor Lopez spent a good bit of time wandering around his normal parking garage,confused as to where his car was.The professor was experiencing:

Remembering how to ride your bike is an example of _____ memory.

_____ is the process of maintaining information in memory over time.

The distorting influence of present knowledge,beliefs,and feelings on the recall of previous experiences is called:

Waitresses who use organizational encoding to organize orders into groups are essentially:

A memory acquired in one situation is more likely to be used in situations with similar encoding and retrieval cues,a phenomenon known as:

If you correctly recall that William James founded the functionalist school of psychology,you are using your _____ memory.

Hermann Ebbinghaus studied memory by using:

Even though Carrie was only 5 years old when her grandmother died,she still clearly remembers exactly where she was and what she was doing when her parents told her the devastating news,an example of a(n)_____ memory.

A son is not paying attention to his father.His father asks sternly,"What did I just say?" and the son can only meekly respond,"You just asked me,'What did I just say?'" What memory store was encoding this information,despite the son not paying attention?